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Interstice

noun

(pl. interstices)

A small structural space between tissues or parts of an organ.

Small opening between things.

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"Interstice" Quotes from Famous Books

... much in earnest for the slightest affectation, he shews his character in his dress, his carriage, and his general appearance. His dress is at once plain and neat; and if his coat should accidentally exhibit the cut of a more genteel manufacturer, the interstice between his boot (he wears top boots) and small clothes, the fashion of his cravat, which is rolled round a stiffner two inches in diameter, and tied in a bow, besides a variety of other more minute characteristics, decidedly refute all suspicion of an attempt at ...

— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... geraniums were growing. Red roses twined around the columns, and, beneath, the steep side of the ravine was clothed with a tangle of vegetation, olive and peach, pear and apple trees. Behind the cottage rose the bare mountain-side, covered with loose stones and rocks, among which in every available interstice the diligent peasants had sown corn and barley. Here and there upon the mountains distant cottages were visible, but on Monte Amato Hermione's was the last, the most intrepid. None other ventured to cling to the warm earth so high above the sea and in a place so solitary. ...

— The Call of the Blood • Robert Smythe Hichens

Words linked to "Interstice" : interstitial, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure, opening, areola, anatomical structure